Tablaist Ramchandra Pandit is a long-time professional performer of classical, semi-classical, folk and popular music. A lifelong disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai, he is a colourful performer and an experienced educator who specializes in demonstrating and explaining Indian music to Western audiences. A Master of Music, he has also performed for All India Radio, and played percussion on film soundtracks in Mumbai for the legendary composer S D Burman. He currently directs the Sarangi Institute of Banaras, an organization that he founded to preserve the sarangi, which is an instrument with a long pedigree in Indian classical music but which now has few masters. He is also the former coordinator of the University of Wisconsin College Year in India programme—a position that he held for nearly thirty years.